Link: https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2025/french-navy-set-to-receive-pc-24-jets-to-improve-operations-from-short-and-unpaved-airstrips

I link this because there is a definite trend in business jets being acquired by militaries for surveillance and electronic warfare, which is a major use case but it seems even bigger than just that.

The intensity and consistency of these acquisitions to me suggests something deep in the calculus has changed.

Speculatively I would suggest that given the rapidly increasing range, endurance and automated capacity of airplane launched weapons and unmanned systems, airforces around the world may consider the most useful platform no longer exclusively to be the fighter-bomber in quite the same way. Business jets, especially ones that can operate from a variety of airfields may be evolving into a surprisingly significant role in aerial warfare and deterrance.

In US military speak the capabilities we are talking about here are referred to as "launched effects" and while the US military has a long history of using aircraft in this role it seems like a general global trend at this point and no longer a doctrine peculiar to some militaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_PC-24